altimetry in a sentence
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- Methods for measuring retreat include staking terminus location, global positioning mapping, aerial mapping and laser altimetry.
- This allowed global imaging and altimetry coverage from 60?south to 60?north, over a total of 300 orbits.
- The ability of high-resolution laser altimetry to accurately identify and evaluate watershed and channel characteristics will be investigated.
- He suggested that further searches for ocean terraces, based on the surveyor's altimetry data, could prove conclusive.
- The best known satellites equipped with DORIS receivers are the altimetry satellites TOPEX / Poseidon, Jason 1 and Jason 2.
- The topography of the Moon has been measured with laser altimetry and Orientale, also possess regionally low elevations and elevated rims.
- The lake is named after Vostok Station, which in turn is named after the " ERS-1 laser altimetry.
- The altimetry data obtained by the Venera missions had a resolution four times better than " Pioneer "'s.
- The first volcanoes along the Juan de Fuca ridge, including Axial Seamount, were detected in the 1970s by satellite altimetry.
- Altimetry data from satellites, such as GEOSAT and TOPEX, can also be used to infer the characteristics of wind waves.